Filmmaker Blog - Mario J. Novoa

‎"If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open doors to you. I say follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be." Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, with Bill Moyers The Baby Cries seemed like an impossible dream, but it was made by a happy collaborative bunch. -Mario J. Novoa Writer, Director

Are your dreams ever boring? Are they full of ecstasy, fear, sorrow or laughter? Dreams linger on in your mind, just like a movie. Movies are fluid. Movies like Dreams continuously fulfill a part of our psyche that excites us. Movies put us in another state of mind and transports us into a dreamlike state. Alfred Hitchcock (one my favorite film directors) once said "Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it. I believe that this statement is true for dreams. Dreams are so dynamic that they stay with us for awhile, if not a lifetime. Movies are the Myths of our times.  "Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.",  Joseph Campbell.  We are transformed through dreams and movies, rarely bored...full of ecstasy, fear, sorrow and laughter. We ...